Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

adonis98-743-186503 Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive on the way. Be Cool starts with one of the most cheesiest scenes in Cinema where some old 2 pals kill James Woods and the shooter's hair come off like why? Vince Vaughn talks like a gangster and The Rock wears an obvious wig and acts like a jerk. Overall a terrible film from start to finish and i can't believe that F. Gary Gray directed it. (0/10)

marcus-v-cox Be Cool is the 'largely unnecessary' sequel to 'Get Shorty' which didn't really leave room for one anyway. The movie opens with Chili Palmer (Travolta) and his friend Tommy Athens (James Woods) (who are both big in the music business), having lunch at a café. Randomly and without warning some black-eyed man pulls up in a car and shoots Tommy. The issue of his death soon blows over and then the so called 'main story' line progresses. The story seems to be about complications in the music business and the relationships between the characters. The movie follows many story lines including Chili and his friend Edie (Therman), a wanna be African American called Raji (Vaughn) and his chauffeur Elliot and a rich gangster called Sin who goes around bullying the other characters for money.The movie has a great cast with Travolta, Therman and Vaughn, but they don't really know what they are doing half the time. It seems as though the order of the movie wasn't thought out very well and scenes in the movie are very loosely stitched together on a weak plot line. A lot of the scenes are extremely monotonous also and just stall the movie.As for the script, its god awful and mainly consists of afro American lingo, unnecessary shouting and swearing and absolutely crappy one-liners. The movie doesn't really develop very well and the characters almost have and attitude of sarcasm and superficiality towards each other. At the end the happily ever after is somewhat unsatisfying and characters who were real pricks get their way.As a lover of film, this movie's existence insults me and this 2 hour monster of a production is not a good waste of quality time and will leave you thinking 'how did film this bad even reach my TV?'.

pkarnold There are occasions when I like a sequel more than the original. Be Cool is one of these. I liked Get Shorty, but it was a little disturbing with some of the violence. I honestly think that Be Cool is much funnier. One way I know I like a movie is if I am channel surfing and I see a movie I know and I stop to watch it again. Well, I did that with Get Shorty the other night, and I realized I like Be Cool better.I think the main reason is the comic performances by actors like Vince Vaughn, who plays a bumbling, silly gangster wannabe (Raji). He is hung out over the edge of the building and he tries to spell his name and can't do it and that cracked me up. I also like Cedric the Entertainer who plays a movie producer (Sin LaSalle) with hired gangster enforcers that he has to tell to be quiet in his upscale neighborhood because they're playing their SUV stereos too loud.Dwayne Johnson (The Rock from WWE) plays a recording star-wannabe/enforcer for the Vince Vaughan character, and is very funny. Robert Pastorelli gets a fun appearance as a mafia assassin (Joe Loop), and chokes to death eating a ham and coleslaw sandwich as Vince Vaughan tries to intimidate him with a red aluminum baseball bat.So maybe I'm the only person that liked this movie, and the comic memories it has for me. Just to give you an idea of other sequels I like better than the originals there's Die Hard II, and Star Trek II.Add in another good comic performance by Andre' Benjamin (Dabu) and I must say this is a funny, enjoyable movie at least for me. Perhaps people don't like this movie because it seems like John Travolta (Chili Palmer) is pretty much a straight man for Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, and Andre' Benjamin, but hey you don't have good comedy without a good straight man. And here's my spoiler, I liked the ending, and the unique way the credits were rolled.

pistolaro_amigo Get Shorty this is not. The fact that the book was not an impressive sequel either sort of squashes the fact that the movie is a faithful adaptation of sub-par material. Travolta as Chilli Palmer in the original only helped solidify his 'comeback' that started with Pulp Fiction. Travolta reprising his role as Chilli Palmer is going back to the well one too many times, as is his teaming up with Uma Thurman. For those that wanted to know what it would've been like if Vincent Vega ever got with Mia Wallace needs to look no further than this movie, because in the alternate universe this is what would happen. And not that this is really Travolta, Thurman, or even Elmore Leonard's faults... the fault here is too many characters occupying too much space in limited time. The Good: The Rock as the aspiring homosexual actor/ bodyguard who steals the show from the more seasoned vets. Andre Benjamin, also the other non-seasoned actor, gets some nice quips when squaring against Travolta and Cedric the Entertainer. The late Robert Pastorelli provides the funniest line in the movie, 'What is it with f***ots and bright shiny red things?!'. The Bad: chemistry, none between Travolta and Thurman. Harvey Keitel channeling his inner-DeNiro parodying himself. F. Gary Gray stepping out of his usual style and seemingly putting together a job-for-hire film. The Ugly: Vince Vaughn doing the same spiel he's done in Swingers, Made, Wedding Crashers, Old School, etc. Christina Milan, her music in the movie doesn't sound like a hit and her performing with Aerosmith at the end is straight Swiss Cheeseball. Steven Tyler playing Steven Tyler and not succeeding at that. The lost focus that this is supposed to be Chilli Palmer's movie but is pulled in too many directions that it stretches it's short running time into what seems like an epic, when all it needed to be was smaller in the beginning.